Hello Everyone!!!
Is everyone else freaking out that
Christmas is only 10 days away?? Time flies when you are serving the Lord. I
can't believe really that soon it will be 2015, which will be my mission year
(or the full year that I will be out on a mission). I apologize in advance that
you haven't gotten my Christmas presents yet... I might not have sent them yet.
I will make sure that they get out this week though.
So this week has actually been one
of the most miraculous weeks that I have had probably in my life. I feel like
every day I am progressing to new understandings of my Savior, and that I am
learning so much about myself and my capabilities as a missionary. Although I
still have days when I am not quite sure, I have learned to combat my doubts,
put them a side, and rely on the evidence that I have that the Lord loves me
and is looking out for me day by day. I am really enjoying being with Sister
Gardner. I feel like we challenge each other day by day, and she really pushes
me to be completely obedient. I find it quite easy to be myself, whoever that is
anymore, around her.
We have had some pretty crazy
experiences together as a companionship so far, and I am not really sure where
to start. I guess I will start with the fact that we now know that we have
siblings that work together.... that's pretty weird. We actually figured that
out, but we were waiting for confirmation. Her sister also knows Chris Pearson
because she currently works at Peoria, but will be moving to Liberty next
semester.
This week we were able to
reach our goals of Walk-N-Talks and Book of Mormon copies!!! Actually we
not only reached them but surpassed them, which is AMAZING!! A total of
213 walk-n-talks, and 16 copies of the Book of Mormon!!!! Of
course Wednesdays, downtown helped but we are quite happy that we were able
to accomplish those goals.
Anyway, on the investigator front we have had some ups and downs this
week. I feel like Evergreen has so much potential that I sometime get
overwhelmed and tired just thinking about it. I guess one thing at a time on
that. Our Investigator Doug has given us a sort of up and down this week. We were
going to meet him on Tuesday, but he called like 3 hours before our lesson and
told us that he wanted to wait until the new year to meet again because he just
wasn't sure. I got really inspired and when he called back I talked to him for
like 15 minutes about the Lord and his love for him and the reason that we read
the Book of Mormon. As my zone leader Elder Martin would say "Chalk one up
for the Spirit". He agreed to meet with us on Thursday at the 24th St.
Chapel, and that brought us to a new problem of who we would get to come to our
lesson. Doug actually doesn't live in our ward boundaries, but we have
permission to teach him... however we want him to be able to get to know the
people from his ward. We called the Woodbine Elders for some help (this being
after I had prayed all morning to be able to find someone that would be perfect
for Doug), and they gave us a list of people that would be available. Long
story short, we ended up having an amazing lesson with Doug and his new fellow-shipper
Sister Wallace who ended up being the most perfect person for him. By the end
of the lesson, he told us that he felt like he needed to make a commitment to
the Lord!!!!! Everyone stop what you are doing and got reach Mosiah 5: 4-5!!!!
Okay sorry, I am back on track now. Unfortunately when we called him later in
the week to ask if he was going to church he gave us the news that his wife
isn't really happy with him, and that she wants him to go to her church before
he makes the decision. We are praying for and hoping that things will work out
in his behalf.
Janet, another one of our
investigators, has quit smoking!!!!!!! We are so excited for her and hope that
she will have the strength to keep going and to bring her boys into the gospel.
I don't want to bore you all with my mission stories... however we had another
really cool experience where we went to go see a potential and she wasn't home,
so I felt like we needed to go and see if anyone lived in Oman and Atoye's old
place. When we rang the doorbell, a girl named Salwa answered, and she told us
that she had received a Book of Mormon a week previous from a friend in High
River!!!! It sounds like the beginning of one of those really inspiring stories
told in sacrament meeting. We are excited to teach her and to bring her into
the light and the love of God.
Another cool thing that has
happened on my mission is that I feel like I have learned more skills out here
then I have back at home. This week I went on exchanges with Sister Hassan to
the YSA ward, and although we didn't have any lessons, two things happened... I
learned how to Crochet (from a relief society activity), and I listened to an
amazing talk called "Sleeping Through Gethsemane".
Over all I am really excited for
this transfer with Sister Gardner. I have already learned a lot, and
progressing forward, and am becoming more and more comfortable with being a
missionary. Thank you all for your support and love. I can't wait to hear all
about your Christmas experiences and the work that the Lord has done in your
life!! I love you always and forever. Have a wonderful week!!
Love,
Sister Kelliann Jensen
Hi Mom!!!
I can't believe that you go the
flu!!! That is awful and I think that you deserve to be able to throw up in dad’s
car. I remember that one time I was really sick when we went to go see the
Flutes and Temple lights... I miss them and hope that you have a wonderful
time. I think that with the Skype call we will be doing it at Sister Peters
house... what time would you like me to be on the computer. I need to see
if I can remember my Skype so that you can call me, but I will send it to you
next week or have Sister Peters send it to you. I did get your second package
and you Dear Elder package!! It turns out that President does a fireside in
December and it is during that time that we get our packages... and we got to
watch Meet the Mormons. There is a part in it where they are talking to a
missionary mom and it shows him going off on his mission. I cried. I love you
so much and can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks. Feel better, tell
Grandma that I am sending off her card soon, and hug O'Malley for me. Also, do
you think that you could send me those CTR rings that Marianne gave me before I
left and maybe the Watch as well??? We have a lot of kids that I think would
love them. I love you lots.
Kelliann
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